so you have really, you know, clashing visions of what a government budget really should be. and what we're really going to see here is sort of a, as a future budget fight, you know, somewhere down the road, maybe later this year, over how the government writes a budget and how these two budgets, you know, had any future and if they can be reconciled or not. >> amie let's move on to the president's trip here to the middle east. he's going in, as you know, we talked about this. the white house was lowering expectations. but did anything happen to exceed those expectations? >> i think advise ares think that it was a largely positive trip. when you look at the headlines in israel, they're very, very, they're calling this trip a very successful one. you know, they had prime minister netanyahu and president obama had their moments. they exchanged laughs. there were, you know, it was a far cry from a moment in the oval office that we saw last year where there was very -- there was a lot of tension. i think that he sort of achieved what he wanted to do there on iran, on middle east